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Chancery Lane was built sometime
around in
(Bebbington 78). Thus, Chancery Lane is a variation of Chancellor Lane—Stow calls it Chancelar Lane in several places—and refers to
the Chancellor’s palace, located there.
Chancery Lane was also the location
of one of the Inns of Court, Sergeants
Inn, which was for Judges and Sergeants only (Stow 1:77). Stow also mentions that there was a
house for converted Jews located there: and then nexte was sometime the
house of the converted Jewes, founded by
(Stow 2:42). In the seventeenth
year of his reign for them a faire church now used, and called the Chappell for the
custodie of Rolles and Records of Chancerie
(Stow 2:42).
According to Stow, the converted Jews and Infidels were baptized, taught the
ways of Christ, and then lived in the house - by law it would seem - under
the guidance of one ordained to govern them. The duration of their required
stay at the house for converts is unclear. In commonly
called the Rolles in Chancery lane
(Stow 2:43).
There was also an inn and brewhouse located on the street, which by Stow’s
time had also been faire builded for the sixe Clearkes of the Rolles
(Stow 2:43). By
Today the chancery buildings and the rolls have been replaced by the Office of Public Records (Weinreb and Hibbert 136–37).